Analysis Of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior

In “No Name Woman”, Maxine Kingston’s ancestral line serves as a life lesson, whereas in “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”, Alice Walker inherits culture and hope. Kingston recounts the first time hearing of her aunt “who killed herself” due to the fact that she was pregnant, and “could not have been pregnant… because her husband had been gone for years”; the mom adds a reminder: “Don’t humiliate us. You wouldn’t like to be forgotten as if you were never born”. Kingston’s aunt disrespected the honor of her family and her village by her lack of faith to her husband, and creating another person dependent on the village for food, which is always scarce. Her ancestry and aunt serve as a lesson to always respect family and their well being, or risk being forgotten

A warrior is someone who encourages others when war gets hard, someone who is wise and patient and respectable. Throughout the entire war, Athena is found on the battlefield, encouraging the soldiers to continue to fight: “Her shield of lightning dazzling, swirling around her. Headlong, Athena swept through the Argive armies, driving soldiers harder, lashing the fighting-fury in each Achaean’s heart—no stopping them now, mad for war and struggle” (2.533). Athena fights hard for what she believes in, no matter what that means and no matter what may come against her. When times get hard and the soldiers are struggling, Athena acts as the voice of inspiration, cheering on those who feel as if they are too weary to

The book is called Warriors: A Dangerous Path, written by Erin Hunter, a peudonym for Cherith Baldry and Kate Cary. I chose this book, because my friend told me it was really a good book to read and I also thought the book cover looked cool. The most interesting thing to me in the whole book was when the cats teamed up with each other. The story takes place in a made-up forest and farmland that is based on New Forest in Southern England. There are four groups of feral cats involved in the story. The four groups called clans are RiverClan, ThunderClan, WindClan and ShadowClan. The four Clans are rivals of each other with each one having their own territory to hunt prey and to protect them from other Clans. The names of the main characters

Maxine Hong Kingston's novel, The Woman Warrior is a semi-autobiographical collection of short stories that chronicles her childhood in California. It gives the reader a feeling of how it feels like to be a Chinese American girl growing up with traditional parents in a world that is quite different from theirs. Throughout the novel, both she and her mother refer to the outside world as "ghosts." The subtitle given to the book is Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. To figure out the meaning behind this subtitle, one has to try to see what

Although the daughter’s shame in her mother is evident, she is also prideful of her as well. The strong love that the mother and daughter share is pervasive throughout the story. The story is being told by the daughter after she is all grown up. The fact that Jones uses such vivid detail on the mother’s preparation for her daughters first day of school shows that the daughter loved her mom and all that she did for her. The daughter recalls that her mother spent a lot of time preparing her when she says, “My mother has uncharacteristically spent nearly an hour on my hair that morning, plaiting and replaiting so that now my scalp tingles.” (Jones) She also remembers that her “pale green slip and underwear are new, the underwear having come three to a plastic package with a little girl on the front who appears to be dancing.” (Jones) The daughter having remembered details like these illustrate that she has an immense love and takes pride

Memoirs, and writing in general, reveal a truth about the author. Oftentimes, said truth is revealed intentionally. Universal truths such as struggle, endurance, and agony help authors influence their audiences. These truths cause the readers to become cognizant of and appreciate the authors. It is a writer’s duty to write from the heart—to write about the good and bad sides of a story. Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood fails to use universal truths and instead presents a very superficial presentation of its author’s life. J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis display the unconventional upbringing of Vance in order to give the audience a better understanding of the writer. Pure honesty

Throughout many portions of The Woman Warrior, silence becomes a big theme and develops with the many stories told in each chapter. For the narrator, the concept of silence means not having an identity because not speaking means not having a say as a woman. However, as the book moves on, she becomes aware of the several negative factors that are associated with claiming independence and doing things differently in a Chinese community. Furthermore, the idea of silence is also hooked up to cross-cultural problems in Chinese culture such as hiding a person's name to hide their identity. Many individuals go by new names when their lives evolve or change and guard their real names with silence. Overall, the mention of silence refers to the hiding

Great warrior always are know because their incredible ability to survive in very hard situation where a normal human could not survive but they do thanks that great warriors have a extranormal strong.

Chapter one titled, “No Name Woman”, is an example of the narrator referring to her mother’s talk-stories and a prominent illustration of incorporating the past into the present. This talk- story is culturally based to express information about the past. In “No Name Women”, the narrator explains that her mother, Brave Orchid, would use the stories to give lessons on life that would stick with her children. She represents a bridge figure with one foot in the past, her Chinese culture that she relays on to the family and one foot in the present, her assimilation to American life. The bridge that Brave Orchid acts as brings together the two cultures and allows her to incorporate the family’s Chinese history into their present

What makes a warrior is it:being able to push through hardships to the end,perhaps it’s the ability to be disciplined enough to deny any incentives that would deter you from your goals,or maybe it’s something not as positive maybe it’s the ability to ruthlessly pursue your goals regardless of who’s in your path.Having similar qualities to the warrior archetype is not necessarily a bad thing,however the same can be said for it being good also. Take for example Wonder Woman she fights for the greater good,but she is not afraid to kill for the greater good.

The author starts the book with the story of her aunt. This story was a well-kept family secret being that her aunt’s actions were of great disappointment to the family. The “no name woman” as the story names her, was forgotten by all her family because she had a child that was not from her husband. This story gives a clear

Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography, The Woman Warrior, features a young Chinese-American constantly searching for "an unusual bird" that would serve as her impeccable guide on her quest for individuality (49). Instead of the flawless guide she seeks, Kingston develops under the influence of other teachers who either seem more fallible or less realistic. Dependent upon their guidance, she grows under the influence of American and Chinese schools and the role models of Brave Orchid, Fa Mu Lan, and Moon Orchid. Her education by these counselors consequently causes her to abandon her search for an escort, the bird to be found somewhere in the measureless sky,

She considers that “some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.” (Kingston 6). Kingston writes her initial version of the “No Name Woman,” who was raped, raided, and died an outcast, but Kingston determines that this telling does not fit her understanding of China. Therefore, Kingston entertains another hypothetical, that her aunt took a lover and saved him from shame by giving “silent birth” and not revealing the lover’s identity (Kingston 11). Here, Kingston critically examines the inherited talk-story of her mother to determine the meaning she should obtain from the death of her aunt. Her mother’s conclusion is that she must not become pregnant, but Kingston is uncertain about the simplicity of her mother’s story. In the “No Name Woman,” Kingston introduces the fictitious memoir structure that she utilizes through the variety of interpretations of her aunt’s story. Consistently through the memoir, Kingston writes contrasting accounts of the same stories and imagines the stories of others to further her themes about silence, authenticity, and identity formation.

"...Point of view is... an artful treatment of the facts [in a story]...," a treatment with which the author decides who is telling the story, as well as the credibility given to the story (Macauley and Lanning 132). Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is not a story, but an autobiography of her life as a Chinese-American girl growing up in California. Although it is not a story, Kingston must decide from which point of view she is going to tell her own story. In The Woman Warrior, the author Maxine Hong Kingston writes in various points of view due to her realizing that, if she writes solely in first person, she will write an autobiography much like all others, only focusing on herself; instead,

“Relationship-honoring” is the backbone of Eastern Asian cultures which conflicts with the western respect for “individual freedom” and the journey to “personal discovery” as defined by Susan Cain, author of a nonfiction book published in 2012, Quiet. Maxine Hong Kingston explores this cultural clash in her 1976 memoir, Woman Warrior, though following an insecure young daughter of a Chinese-immigrant family who increasingly becomes independent as she is influenced by American Culture. Kingston uses Maxine’s journey to portray that in a world that values individualism, people who are raised according to foreign traditions of conformity often discover that their parents are not capable mentors. This struggle eventually causes them break away from their parent’s orthodox ideals.